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A review by aconitecafe
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
5.0
I would guess, that if someone read this book and roll their eyes through most of it, or discredit the realness of the story, they are unaware that these events happened in their high school. Take a moment to use this story to see high school from the eyes of someone else. Don't discredit the book, attempt to understand it.
I relate to Hannah on so many levels. So many of these things happened to me or to my friends in high school, having them all happen to one person within one year, would be too much. It happens, we all read the bullying and suicides in the news. It happens. While it seems that the things she dwelled on were petty, she also states many times that there is more than she is telling the students listening to the tapes, and that in the end is all comes down to her not being able to live with herself. She takes full blame.
This book is well researched, and laid out perfectly. Personally I think that the tapes in themselves were another way of self therapy for Hannah. If she got through the end of telling her story to the air, and felt better letting it all out she would have destroyed them. She used them to process her life, and thoughts, the same way some would use a journal.
I also think that reading this as an adult looking back on my own high school experience gives it a different perspective. I can see how adults that didn't have this type of high school happenings would feel disconnected to this book. But it's about seeing life through the eyes of someone else, not always being able to relate to it.
I do like that the TV Show finished out the story, the book was missing the final days, as the teacher would have received the tapes and there would have been fall out from that. But overall the book was better than the show.
I relate to Hannah on so many levels. So many of these things happened to me or to my friends in high school, having them all happen to one person within one year, would be too much. It happens, we all read the bullying and suicides in the news. It happens. While it seems that the things she dwelled on were petty, she also states many times that there is more than she is telling the students listening to the tapes, and that in the end is all comes down to her not being able to live with herself. She takes full blame.
This book is well researched, and laid out perfectly. Personally I think that the tapes in themselves were another way of self therapy for Hannah. If she got through the end of telling her story to the air, and felt better letting it all out she would have destroyed them. She used them to process her life, and thoughts, the same way some would use a journal.
I also think that reading this as an adult looking back on my own high school experience gives it a different perspective. I can see how adults that didn't have this type of high school happenings would feel disconnected to this book. But it's about seeing life through the eyes of someone else, not always being able to relate to it.
I do like that the TV Show finished out the story, the book was missing the final days, as the teacher would have received the tapes and there would have been fall out from that. But overall the book was better than the show.